"Wo ist mein Schatz?" is just one of several German-language and English-language titles for this 35-minute short film. It is from the year 1916, the days of World War I and so this one has its 100th anniversary this year. The writer and director here is Ernst Lubitsch, in his early-mid-20s , but despite his age he was already a fairly experienced filmmaker because he started so early and was quickly very prolific. The title already gives away that this film is mostly comedy. Every other genre is almost non-existent or negligible (romance). Lubitsch also plays a main character himself in here as he frequently did in his early filmmaking day (a similarity to Fassbinder). This is of course quite a while away from the days Lubitsch became an Oscar-nominated filmmaker who made it big in Hollywood. In terms of the story here, I guess it was okay. Nothing really entertaining or funny and this film is not a must-see by any means, but people who like silent films more than I do may have a good time watching. I personally have little (actually, zero) interest in watching it again and that's why I give it a thumbs-down, even if it not a failure by any means.
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